From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753687AbYE3Pw0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 11:52:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752970AbYE3PwR (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 11:52:17 -0400 Received: from g4t0016.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.19]:39340 "EHLO g4t0016.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752060AbYE3PwQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 May 2008 11:52:16 -0400 From: Bjorn Helgaas To: Stas Sergeev Subject: Re: [patch][resend] provide rtc_cmos platform device, take 2 Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 09:52:14 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405) Cc: Andrew Morton , ambx1@neo.rr.com, david-b@pacbell.net, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200805212334.m4LNY42M006425@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <200805290854.54577.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> <483F7EBA.1040708@aknet.ru> In-Reply-To: <483F7EBA.1040708@aknet.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805300952.15969.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 29 May 2008 10:12:42 pm Stas Sergeev wrote: > Hello. > > Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > As far as I'm concerned, "pnpacpi=off" should only be used to work > > around defects, so I'd like to fix the defect you're seeing with > > parport_pc. Is there a bug report for it? > Certainly, and you've seen it many > times. :) > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7491 > Its that the module parameters are overriden > by PNP and are ignored, so you can't do > "dma=none" etc. > Your patch is not for that, AFAICS. > Or let me know if it is. Oh, yeah, that one :-) No, my patch does nothing for that. I can't remember why it's so hard to fix that bug. Maybe now that we fixed the *other* reason for using "pnpacpi=off", I can take another look at it and make some progress. It doesn't *sound* like it should be hard to fix. Bjorn